Identification of a point mutation associated with pyrethroid resistance in the para-type sodium channel of Triatoma infestans, a vector of Chagas' disease

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 487-491

  Fabro, Jésica ^a   Sterkel, Marcos ^a   Capriotti, Natalia ^a   Mougabure Cueto, Gastón ^b   Germano, Mónica ^b   Rivera Pomar, Rolando ^a,c   Ons, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas de Las Fuerzas Armadas   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Kdr; Pyrethroid resistance; Rhodnius prolixus; Sodium channel gene; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

PYRETHROID; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHODNIUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; VIRUS DETECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE VECTORS; GENE ORDER; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PYRETHRINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SODIUM CHANNELS; TRIATOMA;

HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 84857654864     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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